A building in Gaza where reporters for the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other media outlets worked has been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. Israeli Defense Forces warned those in the building to leave ahead of the strike, so nobody who work for those media outlets were hurt, and the IDF also explained the reason the building was brought down:
2/ When Hamas uses a tall building for military purposes, it becomes a lawful military target.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 15, 2021
Meanwhile, the Biden administration reminded Israel of their responsibility for the safety and security of journalists:
We have communicated directly to the Israelis that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility.
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) May 15, 2021
If Israel had no regard for civilian safety would they have given advanced warning of the strike?
Israel did ensure the safety and security of journalists and independent media, gave them warning to get out of the building they shared with Hamas before it was bombed https://t.co/3BSAKch63W
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) May 15, 2021
Circle back with the AP about subletting space from terror groups
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 15, 2021
Please ask media outlets to do the same by not sharing office space with Hamas, which the US has designated as a terrorist group. https://t.co/T84jcvYk6v
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 15, 2021
Maybe somebody could ask the heads of those media outlets if they were aware who else was using the building.
Did you communicate to AP and Al Jazeera to not share an office building with Hamas? https://t.co/g2CMPRJ1Z5
— Logan Ratick (@Logan_Ratick) May 15, 2021
I think @IDF agrees as they provided @AP advanced notice to evacuate their journalists from the office building they shared with Hamas. https://t.co/v9avyawjYi
— Bradley Engle (@BradEngle) May 15, 2021
Which they did because no journalist was hurt and the only result of the air strikes is a demolished building that Hamas used as an HQ
— Anonymous Gritty (@TBDGritty) May 15, 2021
Did you also communicate directly to Al Jazeera & AP why they were Ok to share office space with Hamas, a U.S. designated terror group, while they used that same building to store weapons and use premises as launching pad to fire rockets at Israel?
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) May 15, 2021
Are you really independent media when your landlord is a terrorist organization? https://t.co/BnNCeJgIG3
— Whatever (@DRussell76) May 15, 2021
"Please do not bomb Hamas while our human shields are around." https://t.co/E037zigYVx
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) May 15, 2021
